AIr compressor problem-solution

[loose nut]

Some time back I ask questions on how to fix my compressor motor, the centripetal switch was stuck in the run position.I needed air to blow out the outside water lines for winter so I went to the compressor, took a ball peen hammer and gave the motor a good whack on the end cap. Motor started right up. Sometimes you do win!

[kev74]

Percussive maintenance for the win!

[reggie_obe]

Some time back I ask questions on how to fix my compressor motor, the centripetal switch was stuck in the run position.I needed air to blow out the outside water lines for winter so I went to the compressor, took a ball peen hammer and gave the motor a good whack on the end cap. Motor started right up. Sometimes you do win!

Replacing the switch too much of a stretch?

[A.K. Boomer]

Whenever I had to take a BFH (big fuqing hammer) to whoop up on a porsche I always told the poor slob that owned it that some of the parts had to be gently coerced with a "kinetic improviser"

As long as you charge porsche owners about three times the price they seem to be very happy with the work...

[psomero]

Smackin' **** for the win. One of my favorite diagnostic methods. The secret is in knowing where to apply the smack so as to best jostle the misbehaving move-y bits on the inside.

I'd advise you still replace the switch. It was probably welded and your hammer input freed it, this time. How many cycles does it have left now?

[deltap]

The contacts are rough and weld together. They still need to be fixed. On one of my Chinese motors I drilled a small hole in the end bell. I unplug the motor and push the contacts apart with a wire through the hole. Got tired of bashing the motor. New switch is in order. Its on a lathe and starts and stops often, not good for a single phase motor.

[loose nut]

Replacing the switch too much of a stretch?

Electric motors are not really my thing. I'm more of a heat and beat kind of guy.

[Doozer]

The motor will burn itself up one day
and the problem will provide itself a solution
with a life philosophy like that.

-D

[loose nut]

Possibly, but since I don't use it very much it will most likely be the next guys problem.